The digitalization of the world has contributed to a revaluation of video. Thus, this communication medium becomes a must in different fields of activity and universally. However, it is essential to ensure the accessibility of videos so that people with hearing or visual impairments can enjoy them and to make videos accessible in all desired languages. In this article, learn how to make your video content accessible.
Make audio description
Audio description is a great way to improve free navigation on sites dedicated to people with visual impairments. To achieve it, it is necessary to insert an automatic reading of the descriptive comments. These are placed between the ranges of a conversation, in order to convey crucial information that is not perceptible by hearing. Similarly, audio description makes it possible to indicate the presence of tangible elements such as landscape, scenery, alphanumeric indications, etc. It is therefore easy to see that this system complements subtitling and transcription. Thus, at GusTAV, several integration solutions are available: writing, transcription, contextualization, voice-over recording.
The transcript
It is the universal solution when it comes to an oral message accessibility system. The transcript is appreciated for its characteristics. Indeed, it is a video report that is at once complete, textual and chronological. In other words, making a transcript is like describing a video entirely. This means that the audio content and the actions carried out must be written down in images.
Subtitling or closed captioning
It is a text display system at the bottom of images that allows you to write down all the auditory sequences of a video. In other words, closed captioning is a description of the audio and contextual parts that are not dialogued. Edited in an SRT format, external subtitling is designed independently of the video. It has the advantage of facilitating the modification of texts without touching the video content. Inlaid subtitling is integrated into the video editing. Therefore, it cannot be used independently.
